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  • 标题:Polaronic behavior in a weak-coupling superconductor
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  • 作者:Adrian G. Swartz ; Hisashi Inoue ; Tyler A. Merz
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:2018
  • 卷号:115
  • 期号:7
  • 页码:1475-1480
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.1713916115
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:The nature of superconductivity in the dilute semiconductor SrTiO3 has remained an open question for more than 50 y. The extremely low carrier densities ( 10 18 – 10 20 cm−3) at which superconductivity occurs suggest an unconventional origin of superconductivity outside of the adiabatic limit on which the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) and Migdal–Eliashberg (ME) theories are based. We take advantage of a newly developed method for engineering band alignments at oxide interfaces and access the electronic structure of Nb-doped SrTiO3, using high-resolution tunneling spectroscopy. We observe strong coupling to the highest-energy longitudinal optic (LO) phonon branch and estimate the doping evolution of the dimensionless electron–phonon interaction strength ( 𝝀 ). Upon cooling below the superconducting transition temperature ( 𝑻 𝐜 ), we observe a single superconducting gap corresponding to the weak-coupling limit of BCS theory, indicating an order of magnitude smaller coupling ( 𝝀 𝐁𝐂𝐒 ≈ 0.1 ). These results suggest that despite the strong normal state interaction with electrons, the highest LO phonon does not provide a dominant contribution to pairing. They further demonstrate that SrTiO3 is an ideal system to probe superconductivity over a wide range of carrier density, adiabatic parameter, and electron–phonon coupling strength.
  • 关键词:superconductivity ; electronic structure ; polaron ; oxide interface
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